Lily Jane Collins, rings a bell? Maybe her name
sounds familiar to you because this lady here comes from another noble show
business family. As part of the Collins family, a family of talented models,
actors and singers, Lily was expected to achieve great heights in her career.
Lily
passed her family’s expectations with flying colors as she starred in
blockbuster movies such as ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘Priest’. She could have even been
in the Twilight Saga as Isabella Swan had she not lost to Kristen Stewart for
the role. It happened again during her audition for the role of snow white for
the movie ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’, but fortunately this time, she got the other role of Snow White in ‘Mirror
Mirror’ starring alongside A-lister Julia Roberts.
Lily rose to fame with
her breakthrough movie ‘Mirror Mirror’ where she played the role of a feisty
princess (yes, different from the traditional Snow White). She did a great job
and the movie earned millions of bucks.
After that, Lily became
famous for her regal charms. Her thick eyebrows also became her trademark and
made her stand out among the rest. During an interview, the interviewer
inquired about her eyebrows. Lily answered, “It used to bother me-having
bigger, fuller eyebrows. I even plucked them once just to fit in, but I hated
them and couldn’t wait for them to grow back. Now I embrace them. I realized the quirky things that make you
different are the things that make you beautiful.”
Behind the camera lens,
Lily is just another teenage girl. She’s someone who values education so much.
She enjoys traveling and while studying, she often visited places she learned
about to further her knowledge. She also has a huge collection of antiques and
vintage possessions.
Furthermore, Lily
doesn’t only have the talent, but also the heart and the wits. The young lady
designed accessories, including ballet flats which she named after her
grandmother, in support of a charity providing low-cost counseling in 2008.
Lily not only has the talent for acting, she also has one for writing. In fact,
she began writing a column (NY Confidential) for the British magazine Elle Girl
in her teens, as well as contributing to Teen Vogue, Seventeen and the Los
Angeles magazine. She went on to college to major in Broadcast Journalism in
the University of Southern California.
What message does Lily
send to all of us? It is to never change ourselves for the entertainment or
pleasure of others and to embrace all our flaws. We should believe in ourselves
because it’s what makes us whole. Also, she shows us that the value of
education is priceless. At the end of the day, everything can be stolen from
you, but not the education you attained.
Catch her next on: The film adaptation of Cecelia
Ahern’s novel “Love, Rosie” (2014)
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